Hi friend, I had taken a pregnancy test on 11/23 and it was negative, Ryan and I were pretty sad but off to Disneyland we went to celebrate a birthday, a friends return from Hawaii, and a friends pregnancy - nothing was going to keep us down for long. Plus, we had only started trying in September so we were both ready for a long haul. Days kept passing and still no sign of my monthly hell week and on my birthday I just knew something was up. I was exhausted, my boobs were hurting and I could not stop eating. I decided to wait until Sunday the 1st to take the next test because if I got the news I was hoping for Id never be able to hide it from you and all my friends at my birthday party. Well here we are, I couldn't wait!! On 11/30 I took another pregnancy test at 5:30am because the feeling woke me up earlier than my alarm and it was test time.

I think you have guessed it by now, but yes I am pregnant!!! (I'm sorry I lied to a few of you about getting my period but I wanted to hide it) Ryan and I are expecting! We could not be more excited and a bit shocked. After I got off work I ran to the doctors office and took another test, still positive so here we go. The due date they have given us is 7/31/2013 , really? haha 2 days before the Hagaman/Brenes wedding that we are so excited to be apart of? Yes that was my first thought but my second thought was WE HAVE AN ELECTION NIGHT BABY haha I don't know if that is exactly correct yet but still, thanks for the win Obama because had Romney won we would have been a lot less in the mood ;)I wanted to call you right away, you are one of my best friends and I know you know that we have been excitedly trying and I wanted to thank you for your words of encouragement and just for loving us and our soon to be little one.

Tonight is my birthday party, I will be surrounded by people that I love and I have no idea how I am going to hide the fact that I am not drinking, you all know that's my tell. Silly me for making it so obvious just how much I love the bottle :p haha but we are gonna attempt it, if you caught me I hope you didn't call me out I don't want our little secret out just yet. But I cant wait to send you this letter so that you know that from the day I knew that I wanted you to know and that I'm sorry I couldn't immediately share it with my closest girlfriends.

This is wonderful, congrats to you both! I found out three days before my birthday party back in Oct, so I had to do the whole "pretend to drink" thing too!! Wishing you both the best on your exciting adventure! Xoxo

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Nikol

1/16/2013 06:55:05 am

Thank you so much we are also so happy for you!! You are having a little boy, how fun!! CONGRATS